Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18
From the Mirror and Farmer
ETHAN ALLEN AND THE MORGANS

as above and signed breeder" that i'll
some respects is so remarkable as to call
for analyzation.
We recognize Mr.. Thompson of Wood
stock, VT, as the writer of the article, a
gentleman who has spent much time to
prove that Ethan Allen was sired by
Flying Morgan, and Black Hawk by
Paddy, and who, being too honest to fall
sify facts, succeeded in proving that
Ethan Allen was by Black Hawk, and
Black Hawk by Sherman Morgan. The
result of all this work | bought of Mr..
Thompson, paying him 500. Mr..
Thompson, with his great experience in
such matters and usual acumen, went at
once to the bottom source of evidence,
the stud books of Black Hawk and Sher-
man Morgan, who were claimed to be the
sires respectively of Ethan Allen and
Black Hawk. Mr.. Thompson found
remember it is Mr.. Thompson who
found this-that Black Hawk covered
the dam of Ethan Allen July 8, 1913, and
again June ~. 1919, which proved that
Ethan Allen was foaled at or about June Is
S49and as this would be the proper time
to the cover of Black Hawk of July 8, the
year before, Mr.. Thompson had proved,
as near as it is possible to prove, that
Ethan Allen was sired by Black Hawk.
To raise any question whatever it would
be necessary to show that the dam of
Ethan Allen was also covered by another
stallion about the same time that Black
Hawk covered her. This Mr.. Thompson
did not show; he tried hard enough.
DR.. Russell has informed me that he Dor
ed him to death about the matter, and a
number of parties at Ticonderoga said to
me that he hung around them like a pest.
Now. if. having sufficiently and album
dainty established that Ethan Allen was
by Black Hawk, Mr.. Thompson is too
simple to perceive it, that is his misfor-
tune. The rest of the world will not be
troubled that way. In like manner Mr..
Thompson found entered in Mr.. Bellows
books of Sherman Morgan the fact that
the dam of Black Hawk was covered by
Sherman Morgan, May II, 1882. And
Mr. Bellows states in penciling inserted
afterwards that Black Hawk was pro-
duced by this service. This taken with
the testimony of Shadrach Seavey, OBJ
tanned by Mr. Parlin of the Cultivator,
that Black Hawk was foaled April, 1893,
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such fact could be demonstrated, that
Black Hawk was sired by Sherman Nor
gan.
Mr.. Seavey had charge of the dam of
an intelligent and perfectly trustworthy
farmer who now lives at Greenland,
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Having done this very creditable work
in pedigree hunting. Mr. Thompson sells
it for what it is worth, and having got
rid of it proceeds to build up pedigree
on his intuitions, that is, upon the supe-
rior knowledge which he is supposed to
possess, or which he supposes himself to
possess, of the great laws of nature which
govern the reproduction of the species.
Solomon said: "Ihcrc are three things
which are too wonderful for me. yea,
four, which know not: The way of the
eagle in the air; the way of a serpent up
on rock; the way of a ship in the midst
of the sea and the way of a man with a
maid" This from Solomon; but Mr..
Thompson gabbles about the laws that
govern life as though there was nothing
that was too wonderful for him.
Mr.. Thompson says: sit is well to full
ly realize and consider the resemblance
that there always is between the Off
spring and the parent and those that are
related, whether in the human family OF
among the domestic animals. Every one
of experience and observance has had
proof of it by meeting persons that were
strangers,yet so strongly did they resem-
bic some one that he knew that he was
certain the stranger was either father
or son or brother to the one whom he
knew, and upon inquiry it would be found
| W pc so' Ills SHOWS THAT the law OF nature
that blood will tell ,that'like will produce
like as in the likeness of some ancestor,
does not prove false or uncertain" We
do not hesitate to say that many, if not
all, have had the experience of meeting
people that they supposed were parties
that they knew, quite frequently adj
dressing them as such, and finding that
they were entire strangers. Frequently
there is no near relationship whatever in
these cases, only the relationship of man
Last fall at Montpelier in the office OF
the Pavilion saw man thought must
be Mr.. Dart, the superintendent of edu.
cation in Vermont, a gentleman whom
had known for years very well indeed
and after looking at him carefully so as
to be sure, addressed him as Mr.. Dart
He told me that was not his name, but
that he was often taken for Mr.. Dart
All this part of Mr.. Thompson's argu-